IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
• Member of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage
• Member of Division G Stars and Stellar Physics
• Member of Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe
• Member of Commission B6 Astronomical Photometry and Polarimetry
• Member of Division G WG Active B Stars

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past President of Commission B6 Astronomical Photometry and Polarimetry (2018-2021)
• Past Vice-President of Commission B6 Astronomical Photometry and Polarimetry (2015-2018)
• Past Advisor of Commission B6 Astronomical Photometry and Polarimetry (2021-2024)
• Past Steering Committee Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science (2018-2021)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission B6 Astronomical Photometry and Polarimetry (2021-2024)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission B6 Astronomical Photometry and Polarimetry (2018-2021)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission B6 Astronomical Photometry and Polarimetry (2015-2018)
• Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 25 Astronomical Photometry and Polarimetry (2012-2015)
• Past Member of Commission 25 Astronomical Photometry and Polarimetry (2012-2015)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.8 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.26 - Polarization, 2.30 - Scattering
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.4 - Light pollution, 3.9 - Techniques, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous, 4.4 - Surveys
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.6 - Parallaxes
7 - Planetary systems: 7.14 - Exoplanets
8 - Stars: 8.7 - Stars: circumstellar matter, 8.9 - Stars: distances, 8.20 - Stars: late-type
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.4 - ISM: clouds, 9.6 - ISM: dust, extinction, 9.8 - ISM: general, 9.10 - ISM: Herbig-Haro objects, 9.14 - ISM: magnetic fields
10 - The Galaxy: 10.12 - Galaxy: local insterstellar matter, 10.15 - Galaxy: open clusters and associations, 10.18 - Galaxy: structure
11 - Galaxies: 11.3 - Galaxies: BL Lacertae objects, 11.18 - Galaxies: ISM, 11.23 - Galaxies: Magellanic Clouds, 11.24 - Galaxies: magnetic fields
12 - Cosmology: 12.1 - Cosmology: cosmic background radiation